On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:29:11 -0400 Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org> wrote:
> Interesting, this reminds me of the ignorant tweeps who believed > (despite the text) that the character Rue in *Hunger Games* was white > and asked "Why is Rue Black?" in the movie. > > Do folks know of other examples of this? > Well, admittedly, I find it hard to visualise characters based on their descriptions in the text. For example, I didn't picture http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Cho_Chang as belonging to Asian descent necessarily, even though I presumed she may have been. Then I saw her as Asian in one of the Harry Potter films. Regards, Shlomi Fish > On 03/30/2013 03:52 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > > Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 > > million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no > > idea it was a secret, and she was "outed" when she announced her > > twitter account featuring a picture of herself. Apparently the bias > > occurred because of the swear word on her facebook page which made > > readers assume she was a man. Interesting conclusion! This is a > > facebook hype that deserves a WP page, no? > > > > article is here: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/us-news-blog/2013/mar/20/i-love-science-woman-facbook > > facebook page here: > > http://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience > > The TV interview with Dr. Michio Kaku on CBS morning show is here: > > http://cbsn.ws/109mAEL > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ <ew73> VB.NET is all of the fun of enforced privacy OO with all of the power of BASIC. — Freenode’s #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap